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14[[caption-width-right:350:[-"I wore this for you, Mr. Senator. Look what I ''didn't'' wear!"-] ]]
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16->''"And I started thinking about what would be 'awesome' for Bill Engvall? What would leave me in awe and wonder? And it would have to be if I left this stage tonight and went back to my hotel room. And Shania Twain met me at my door, wearing nothing but a fur coat, holding a note from my wife that said 'have a good time.' '''That''' would be '''awesome'''!''\
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18''It ain't gonna happen, but that would be awesome."''
19-->-- '''Creator/BillEngvall'''
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21Going out naked is embarrassing, and could get you arrested. Well if you have nothing else handy, a [[PrettyInMink fur coat, wrap or cape]] will do. It's stylish, covers up all the naughty bits, and is great {{fanservice}}.
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23Yet, this is quite often a deliberate seduction move, combining with ReadyForLovemaking. Why is this such a turn on? RuleThirtyFour, of course. And in many ways it's better at implying actual nudity than a thong bikini (but not a wet T-shirt).
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25And not even a full coat is necessary. In the early days of Hollywood, glamor shots would often have an actress wear a fur wrap, and be shot in a way that looks as though she wore nothing else. For some reason, the Hays office allowed it, probably because they weren't actually naked. But the allusion in those is still clear.
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27Sometimes this is a ploy to distract one's husband from the fact that a fair chunk of the family finances were just sunk into this fur coat.
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29Yet other times, there is no seduction, and the fur coat is just an emergency cover up, just often a sexy one.
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31Now this trope doesn't count if you actually see any nudity. Then it's just a nude shot with the fur as an accessory.
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33A SubTrope of PrettyInMink.
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35A SisterTrope to SexyCoatFlashing, GoingFurASwim (a g-rated variation).
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37Compare FurBikini, GodivaHair (hair instead of fur), NakedApron (which is something similar with a cooking apron), ModestyTowel (ditto with a towel), CleavageWindow, DiamondsInTheBuff, GoingCommando.
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44* ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'': Nothing screams "villain" more than having Suzu seductively wearing nothing but a loose, black fur robe.
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48* ''[[Film/FortySecondStreet 42nd Street]]'' had a really subtle one. In the BusbyBerkeleyNumber, there was a woman in a fur-trimmed dress, with a huge white fur muff. If you paid close attention, you'd see she was actually wearing a fur trimmed skirt with a white fur wrap. The muff was constantly held over her midriff to make it not so obvious that the wrap was the only thing keeping her you-know-what covered. This was before the Hays Office became as powerful as it was (although it was started a few years before), and may have even led to its rise to power.
49* ''Film/AlmostFamous'' has an ''[[{{Pun}} almost]]'' naked example: Penny Lane dancing and walking around in nothing more than her fur coat and panties.
50* ''Film/BreakingAndEntering2006'': During Will's stake-out of the burgled offices, the prostitute Oana sits in his car because wearing a fur coat with nothing underneath is cold.
51* In ''Film/AFineMess'', Claudia Pazzo (Creator/MariaConchitaAlonso) arrives at Spence Holden's (Ted Danson) apartment wearing a white fox fur coat. Spence asks if he could take her coat and Claudia says, "Sure", while [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/afinemess_fur_3202.jpg shedding the coat]] and [[ToplessnessFromTheBack walked into Spence's bedroom wearing only panties]].
52* Jean in ''Film/TheGreeksHadAWordForThem'' seduces a man this way.
53* In ''Film/JustTheWayYouAre'', Susan hangs out in her room at the ski resort wearing a fur coat and nothing else.
54* Michele Carey does this for [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] in ''Fim/LiveALittleLoveALittle''.
55* A rare instance with a guy was in ''Film/LoverComeBack'', when Creator/RockHudson was abandoned naked on the beach by Creator/DorisDay (and he deserved it). So he was later picked up by a truck carrying fur coats, and he was forced to wear one to get back into his apartment. Since we now know Rock was gay, this may or may not be HilariousInHindsight.
56* In ''Film/MissPettigrewLivesForADay'', Delysia Lafosse takes off the silk robe she seduced a man in the night before, then puts on a fur coat with nothing else under it just before her boyfriend comes in. And... really enjoys it.
57-->'''Delysia:''' There is something so sensual about the feeling of fur against skin!
58* Creator/JeanetteMacDonald is ''nearly'' Naked In Mink in ''Film/{{Monte Carlo|1930}}'': on her wedding day, she leaves the dress draped over a chair and [[RunawayBride hops on a train]] wearing just a fur coat over her underwear.
59* At one point in ''Film/TheNatural'', Memo Paris shows up in Roy's hotel room wearing a fur coat, which she then drops before joining him in bed.
60* Sean Young pulls this with a fur coat in ''Film/NoWayOut1987''.
61* Ulla shows herself like this to Benny in the first ''Film/OlsenBanden'' movie.
62* In ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', Olga Beriosova (Lesley-Anne Down) seduces Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) in a scene that is beyond words.
63-->"But he has been shot. And I do not carry a gun."
64-->"Obviously not, no..."
65* At the beginning of ''Film/StirCrazy'', Gene Wilder's character is working as an in-house detective at a department store when he accuses a female shopper (whom he recognizes as a famous actress) of both a.) shoplifting the fur coat she's wearing and b.) having nothing on underneath. In the next scene he's been fired from the job for harassing said customer; we never learn whether he was correct in either of his assumptions.
66* An interesting example in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Mystique seduces a mark while in the form of a woman wearing a cocktail dress under a fur coat. When she shapeshifts back to her nude blue form, the coat remains- apparently, unlike the rest of her clothing, it wasn't shapeshifted from her body. She proceeds to drop the coat and kick the poor sucker's butt.
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70%%* Arthur Schnitzler's ''Fräulein Else''.
71* In ''The Professional Killers'' by Creator/JTEdson, the police raid the house of a burglar and find his girlfriend wearing a recently stolen mink stole and nothing else.
72* In Leopold Sacher-Masoch's ''Literature/VenusInFurs'', this is featured prominently amidst other fetishes the author diplays.
73%%** Which then inspired a similar song by [[Music/VelvetUnderground The Velvet Underground]].
74%%** And a song that ''may'' be about this by Music/ElectricWizard. With them, God only knows...
75* At the end of ''Literature/TheWidowOfDesire'' there is a fur {{Auction}}, and actress Diana Darbee wears almost nothing under a pile of Russian lynx skins, as [[CelebrityEndorsement publicity for the fur company she was hired to model for]].
76* The female protagonist of ''The Zolotov Affair'' spends almost the entire novel stuck wearing only a mink fur coat, since she is constantly on the run from either the authorities or spies and thus rarely gets a chance to change.
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80* In ''Series/AlloAllo'' Helga once tried to seduce information out of Renee by going to him wearing only a fur coat and (apparently) three well-placed swastikas. She was unsuccessful because it was the morning after his bachelor party (and it was implied that he had slept with almost every other woman in the cast the night before).
81* In the ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode where a soap opera's head writer is killed, one of the stars becomes a suspect because the writer planned to kill her off (her ''character,'' that is) for sleeping with the writer's husband. When confronted, her alibi is seducing one of the male writers to advocate for her to the execs. When he's asked to confirm it, he describes her arriving at his front door wearing a fur coat. ''Just'' a fur coat.
82* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Sheldon's girlfriend, Camille, arrives at his apartment wearing a fur coat and when he says he's had a really tiring day, she lets it slide to the floor, revealing that it was all she had on. He hastily ushers her in.
83* Kimberly Cryder in ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' wore a sable coat to meet JR, and then took it off just to show what he could have had.
84* Happened in ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' with Bree arriving at her husband Orson's dental practice wearing only a fur. Cue coat drop. She also did this once for Rex but was wearing red lingerie underneath on that occasion.
85* There was a series called ''Series/GoodAndEvil'', and in one scene, the "Evil" character tried to seduce a guy by wearing nothing but a sable coat and flashing him. We only saw her from behind, so it counts as this trope.
86* In the ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episode "Bears Will be Bears", Gilda seduces her boyfriend by [[SexyCoatFlashing suggestively opening a fur coat she's wearing to reveal her lingerie-clad body]].
87* ''Series/JakeAndTheFatman'': In "Second Time Round",FemmeFatale Carolyn Bruce returns from blowing up a patsy in order to allow her blackmailer boyfriend to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]] wearing a full length white fur coat.She climbs into-bed with him and then shrugs off the coat to reveal ToplessnessFromTheBack.
88* An episode of ''Series/MadMen'' had Pete Campbell fantasizing about a woman he had recently slept with surprising him in his office wearing nothing but a fur coat and heels.
89* In an early episode of ''Series/MissionImpossible'' (Steven Hill days) Martin Landau is masquerading as a Latin American dictator and Barbara Bain as a total stranger he has summoned to his room. When one of the real dictator's aides start asking Landau questions that have him stumped, Bain appears at the bedroom door wearing nothing but a fur coat. The aide realizes he should leave. When Landau tells her that was quite a show, she opens the door revealing the two guards they have previously subdued and tied up and says "You should have seen it from ''their'' side."
90* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': The episode ''School for Scandal'' has the character Daphne return from a swim wearing a fur suit, and as shown (though not to the viewer, this being Murder, She Wrote) when she flashes everyone upon retiring for the night, nothing else. This first just seems to be to establish how irreverent Daphne is, but later undermines her confession[[note]]done to [[TakingTheHeat take the heat]] from her mother, who in turn had done the same, both mistakenly thinking the other had done it[[/note]] when Jessica points out she'd clearly shown she wasn't wearing enough clothing to conceal the murder weapon.
91* The picture comes from the Creator/MarilynMonroe episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap''. Her assistant tries on one of her fur coats, and comes this close to showing that was about all she was wearing.
92* An episode of ''Series/SledgeHammer'' does an homage to Noir Detectives. An early scene has a wealthy client in Sledge's office wearing a fur coat. He offers that she take it off, but she replies that she just came from modeling for the art school down the street and is naked underneath. He responds, "in that case, I insist."
93* Carmella does this in ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS2E13Funhouse Funhouse]]" when Tony gets her a full length sable coat, and insists they make love with her wearing the coat.
94* In the first episode of ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'', Ilithyia somehow sneaks into a military camp wearing nothing but a fur coat to surprise her husband in his tent.
95* In ''Series/That70sShow'', Kitty tells Donna that when Red left for Korea, she gave him a budoir photo of her wearing nothing but a fur coat.
96* On ''Series/UglyBetty'', Wilhelmina first tried to seduce Bradford this way. She also used this trope to counter a fur protester wearing nothing but burlap. Both times she wore one side off the shoulder to make it clear there was nothing underneath.
97* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "The Female Factor", a HighClassCallGirl has sneak out on her pimp after coming home and removing her clothes, so she puts on the mink coat, removes her pumps and climbs out the rear window. She's later found dead in the river stark naked, with Doyle and Bodie arguing over whether the absence of the expensive coat means she was murdered or someone just stole it after she committed suicide.
98* The temple seduction scene from the ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' episode "Amphipolis Under Siege" where Xena greets Ares wearing nothing but a fur cloak.
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102* There's footage of Music/EarthaKitt performing "Santa Baby" back in the day, barely covered by a length of white fur. It can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOMmSbxB_Sg here]].
103* "Give Me a Try" by Music/TheWombats
104-->''But I just need you in that fur coat\
105[[DiamondsInTheBuff With only my necklace on underneath]]''
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109* Many of the models in ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' appear wearing almost nothing but a fur (usually the covers, as inside the issue shows the nudity), like Barbi Benton in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/playboy_december_1985.jpg a sable coat]] in the December '85 issue or Janet Pilgrim in [[http://depechemoderox.tumblr.com/image/70503211921 a white mink stole]] in an early Christmas centerfold.
110* In a 1999 issue of ''Magazine/VanityFair'', Creator/CharlizeTheron posed nude save for being wrapped in a full length white fox coat. The cover even declared her a "[[http://cdn-1.historyguy.com/moviesandtvhistory/charlize-theron-vanity-fair-cover.jpg White Hot Venus]]".
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114* When Creator/BillEngvall was discussing [[YouKeepUsingThatWord the proper meaning of "awesome"]] he brought up what would truly be awesome to him.
115-->And I started thinking about what would be awesome for Bill Engvall? What would leave me in awe and wonder? And it would have to be if I left this stage tonight and went back to my hotel room. And Music/ShaniaTwain met me at my door, wearing nothing but a [[PrettyInMink fur coat]], holding a note from my wife that said "have a good time." ''That'' would be awesome!\
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117It ain't gonna happen; but that would be awesome.
118* In a Creator/TimAllen comedy bit, he tells about his wife trying this on him with a new coat she bought behind his back. His response? "Don't stain it; we're taking it back in the morning." He also made a point that it didn't work in reverse. She'd hardly let buying a sports car slide if he rolled up in it wearing nothing but driving gloves.
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122* ''Theatre/NotNowDarling'', a {{farce}} by Ray Cooney and John Chapman involving shenanigans at an exclusive London fur store. A RunningGag involves a model in a fur coat who [[GoingCommando claims she's got nothing underneath]]. Whenever someone displays skepticism over this, she opens her coat so they can have an eyeful ([[SexyDiscretionShot she's always facing away from the audience of course]]).
123* In the Cedar Rapids Opera [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxZ-e8Oj_z0 production]] of Strauss's ''Theatre/{{Salome}}'', after Salome has ended the [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn Dance of the Seven Veils]] clad only in [[FullyClothedNudity black lingerie]], the Page of Herodias covers her with a fur coat.
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127* According to Princess Diana's (admittedly somewhat "[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} reality-challenged]]") former butler, he would often smuggle men into the palace in the trunk of his car, to be greeted by the Princess wearing only a fur coat and jewels.
128* Marianne Faithfull, in the [[UrbanLegend legendary]] [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mars bar incident]], was allegedly only wearing a fur rug. Her autobiography confirms the fur rug, but denies the bit with the [[NoodleIncident Mars bar]].
129* A few pin-ups of Creator/DitaVonTeese featured this.
130* Recounted in ''Not Since Carrie'' by Ken Mandelbaum: The musical ''At The Grand'' closed before it went to Broadway because its star, Paul Muni, refused to sign a new contract after his preliminary one was up. The other actors were pissed, as the show had been doing good business in previews on the road. By way of revenge, during her curtain call at the final show, Joan Diener turned upstage to face Muni (who hated scantily-clad chorus girls and cleavage) and opened her full-length mink coat "to reveal herself naked but for a long stemmed rose between her legs."
131* UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish as spoken OopNorth has the idiomatic term ''she's all fur coat and no knickers!'', spoken disapprovingly concerning a Certain Type Of Woman Who Is No Better Than She Ought To Be. The "no knickers" part can refer, darkly, to the occupation of the lady in question and explains to the satisfaction of the listener just what she does to be able to afford expensive furs. (And why wearing clothing under the fur is optional).
132* Kawésqar, one of the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego, traditionally wore nothing but guanaco skin cloaks to survive from the harsh, stormy climate of the Strait of Magellan.
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